Entrepreneurial Resources

Startups are on the rise in India. It is good to see a new and bold breed of entrepreneurs in India. The startup eco-system in India has improved a lot over the years, we are yet to catchup with Silicon Valley but the journey has started.

While angel & VC funding in India is out there, lately startups are getting help from incubators and accelerators. We list a few of them here.

Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding India – helps fund medical patients, NGOs and even social enterprises
all with the generosity of thousands of donors online

Incubators / Accelerators in India

BLS Accelerator, Delhi. Creates opportunities to scale through its accelerator and market access programs curated for both local and international startups. Backs innovation through the seed and growth stage.

Excubator, Bengaluru, a startup incubator who help you position your idea in a competitive environment using Excube360 platform.

Gastrotope is a catalyst/Farm to Fork accelerator which is a joint venture of 3 companies: Mistletoe, GSF India, and Infobridge.

Silicon Road, Mysuru. Main focus on retail and food technology. Has tie-up with their US office.

Target Accelerator, Bengaluru. The focus is on retail. It is a four-month program in Minneapolis and Bengaluru.

Incubators / Accelerators in the US

PlayGround: based in Palo Alto, Calif., founded by Andy Rubin (Founder of Android), invests in and incubates startups building software-based hardware, helping them develop products from prototype to manufacturing.

MozBackup – used for backing up Thunderbird profiles which can be used later during restoration (disk crash etc)

QuickFolders – easy way to search folders without having to scroll thru a big tree of folders

Remove duplicates – at times when you import mail from a client like Eudora/Outlook to Thunderbird there could be a chance of having duplicate emails/folders in Thunderbird. Get rid of those duplicates

XPunge – This compacts and empties all your Trash folders. You can set a timer to do this task or do it manually.

CCleaner – is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

Disk Space Fan – is a freeware and it is a nice disk space analysis tool for Windows. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. It displays disk space usage with a nice chart. You can navigate the folders easily with the chart. It is also intergrated with Windows Explorer to open, delete and browse files or folders.

Everything – Search for any file/directory on Windows, far better than Google Desktop.

Fences – Is a program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they are not in use

Flux – makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. Available for Mac, Linux too.

Audiense – The app lets you manage your lists, see your community on a map and browse your community conveniently based on their engagement. On top of this, the app allows you to bucket your followers according to time zones which is very useful to know when to best reach them.

Reports / Analyzing Tools

Audiense – The app lets you manage your lists, see your community on a map and browse your community conveniently based on their engagement. On top of this, the app allows you to bucket your followers according to time zones which is very useful to know when to best reach them.

TrendsMap – is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world.